The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


THERE dTt lO,Oto llOIS ti@A "N4AAO@ 49,
Manitoba
AUDRAN COUNTY, Mo, has base ball club com
posed of nine brothers.
THE shirt Craig Toliver wore when he was
shot is on exhibition in Louisville barroom.
JAPANESE HOUSE SERVANTS are becoming pop
ular in Modesto Cal, and are displaclng
Chinese.
A WOMAN waiting for train in New Haven
railway station the other day had eight cross
eyed children with her.
A New YORK COMPANY is attracting purchasers
for pianos by offering to give lessons on the in
strument to each purchaser.
THAT was pretty rough on Jake Beller, of De-
troit to be fined 81 500 for having illicit still,
and then have the still bring only SOC, at auc-
ton.
IT IS said that every good piano sold in France
comes from the United States. The most they
can do in that country is to manufacture the
case and the stool.
MATCHES are SO cheap now in some New York
cigar stores that when a customer asks for
match he gets a box Good matches of the
Swedish kind, cost less than re. a box
On a recent rainy morning a man stampeded
a crowd of citizens on a Chicago street corner
by stepping among them and remarking: You
have my umbrella, sir" The man was cross
eyed.
IT HAS been decided by California court that
a real estate deed from husband to wife where
'love and affection" are named as the considera-
ton is not valid unless there was actually such
consideration at the time of the transfer.
Tom WEBB living near Millville, Cal, has an
apple tree on which he grated the Duchess
pear about two years ago. The bud has done
better than the apple, but both bear fruit, each
after its kind. The strange part of it is
hat, md tha~.
same twig.
The following card appears in the Richland
Ua.) Beacon: ''To whom it may concern: I was
once known as j. D. Cooper in the parish of
Richland. | now return, the same man, only
worn by the cares of time, by the name of Pat
Butler My father and mother live in Saratoga
county, New York. PAT BUTLER" ..t-t
ST. PETERSBURG PAMPHLET announces that
the Nihilsts have completed their reorganiza-
ton, killed or otherwise disposed of all spies,
and are now ready for the winter campaign.
The work is said to be proceeding with encour-
aging speed in Siberia, where last month forty
five guards and twenty-three prisoners ran
away.
JAMES WILLIAMSON, of Toronto, O.. captured
a live crow in his cornf1eld. While carrying it
home he was attacked by hundreds of other
crows. He first tried to run away; then he
made vigorous attempt to defend himself
with a club; next he sought shelter in shed,
where the besiegng crows kept him prisoner
for more than an hour.
LEROY Brown, an elderly man, was playing
with pet kitten at his home near the railroad
track in Homer, N. Y, on Wednesday The
kitten Jumped from his arms and darted across
the track Mr.. Brown started in pursuit and
was struck by an express train and hurled fifty
feet upon an embanknent. His neck was
broken and he died almost instantly
In the early days only a few scholars and
priests knew how to write. It was then custom
airy to sign document by smearing the hand
with ink and impressing it upon the paper, at
thehSame time saying witness my hand.n At
terward the seal was introduced as a substitute
for the landmark, the two forming the sigma
tllre. This is the origin Of the expression used
in modern documents.
A 100-MILE CYCLING RACE st Biggleswade Eng
land Saturday was won by a man named Hall
in hours 46 minutes AZ seconds. He rode a
safety machine. The course was over ordinary
macadamized country roads, and the race is
called victory for the safety over the ordinary
tandem machines. To rival his speed for the
same distance man driving would have to have
eight relays of fast horses.
THE Brattle Square Church, in Boston, has a
tower which is not owned by the Baptist So
ciety worshiping in the church The tower
has colossal relief by Bartholdi, the Liberty
sculptor, and waf such an adornment that when
]. Montgomery Sears, the millionaire, sold the
church to the Baptist Society, he reserved the
tower and decided it to the Memorial Society, TO
be preserved as public monument.
AN East Tawas, Mich, man recently inter
viewed clarvoyant, who told him where to
bore for gas and be sureto find it. She described
his farm exactly told him to take not more
nor less than five people, and to stop boring as
soon as gas was struck, as below it was an i'm
mense field of salt, She also told him where to
find an abundance of iron on his farm Although
he did not tell the woman his his Dlapa
of residence, he has found samples of his soil
that bear Sc per cent. IRON and is wondering
what five people he would better let into his gas
snap.
GEORGE AMBROSE, who lives on the Capt
Okeson farm a couple of miles east of Lexing
ton, Mich, is the owner of turkey hen that
has a brood of half grown turkeys among
which is a young prairie chicken of apparently
the same age as its companions. Whether the
chicken was Matched with the turkeys or
adopted by the hen when small is not known.
The hen hid her nest out in the field, and when
she first made her appearance with her young
family the chicken was with her. At first it
was very shy, but has since grown as tame as
the turkeys and shows no disposition to leave
AS profession the practice of medicine seems
to be pretty lucrative. The late Miss Wolf used
to pay $4,000 a year to her medical attendant.
The late Mrs. A. T. Stewart paid an average of
$500 to three physicians. Mrs, G. Vanderbilt
pays her doctor $1,000 year and Mrs. William
Aston pays $4,000. Mrs. Ellis, an American
lady physician to the Queen of Corea, receives
$4,000 year. At a meeting of the County
Medical Society two white-hared physicians
with whom reporter talked agreed in saving
that at least one half of the practicing pRysi
clans OF New York received incomes OF S. 900 a
year and upward.
FRANK BURNS, a farmer in the Laurel Hill
mountains, three miles from Bakersville, Somer-
set county, Pa, made queer capture one even
ing last week. The evening was very cool and
as twilight came on there flew into his attic a
pair of carrier pigeons benumbed with cold and
bewildered in the darkness. Each bird had a
blue silk ribbon around its neck and under the
left wing an ivory tablet bearing the inscription:
Miss Rose Lovejoy, Carondolit, Mo- Sept ,
1887" Under the right wings were two letters
one addressed to Miss Janet Wheeler Wasepi.
Mich, and the other TO George Serpall Val
paraiSo, Ind Several quilts in their wings were
also marked with letters and numbers
THERE are in Paris about 5000 artists of the
brush, of whom between 1000 and 5000 are
women, and 300 are foreigners OF various ma
tionalities. About seventy of these are famous.
while the others are made up of wealthy DER
sons who paint for pleasure, of people who are
specially employed by the government aand of
the producers of 'pot-boilers" who paint nor
traits and landscapes for cheap picture dealers
or for foreign expectation The models are only
employed between the ages of Is and 10 by
painters of che nude, but some of them find
work until they are - or 10, after which the ir
forms completely lose TIE grace and contour Of
early growth. The women who nose in tho